Crime Fiction Links of the Week for June 21 2025
Crime fiction in general:
- CrimeReads shares ten new crime novels coming out this week,
- Laura Wilson shares a round-up of the best recent crime novels and thrillers.
- Happiness is a Book shares recommendations for classic mysteries for those new to the genre.
- A.A. Chaudhuri talks about the evolution of the “Whodunnit”
- Kate Jackson lists ten female mystery authors who used male pseudonyms
- Allison Brennan talks about the distinct pleasures of romantic suspense.
- Sian Gilbert shares nine great mystery and thriller novels set at sea
- N.L. Lavin and Hunter Burke talk about crime fiction set in Louisiana.
- Paul French talks about crime fiction set in Puetro Rico.
- E.C. Nevins discusses the appeal of the bookish mystery.
- Kristen Berry shares six crime novels drawing attention to the ongoing epidemic of missing women of colour
- Ivy Pochoda shares five books that dive into the drug-fueled darkness of the club scene
- Rav Grewal-Kök explains why John le Carré's work remains more essential than ever
- Mark Sweney reports about a trademark battle involving James Bond.
Film and TV:
- Paul Hirons declares that the Danish thriller Secrets We Keep exposes the dark side of privileged suburbia
- Paul Hirons calls Sara – Woman in the Shadows a slick Italian spy series
- Brianna Zigler calls Deep Cover an action comedy with an amusing premise that stays shallow throughout its runtime.
- Catherine Bray calls Last Resort a formulaic and fun-lacking man-on-a-mission thriller
- Peter Bradshaw calls F1 the Movie a spectacular macho melodrama
- Caroline Siede shares her thoughts on the latest episode of Duster.
- Cath Clarke calls Holloway a powerful documentary.
- Stuart Heritage calls The Mortician a documentary so queasy it will stay with you forever
- Hannah J. Davies calls Murder 24/7 iffy and wonders why we still watch true crime horrors.
- Olivia Rutigliano shares crime movies for hot summer days.
- Diana Keng visits The Peddler, a bistro in Millbrook, Ontario, Canada, which featured in an episode of Reacher.
- Ben Travis and Jordan King interview Christopher McQuarrie, director of Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning.
- Paul Hirons revisits the 1979 romantic mystery TV series Hart to Heart.
- Justin Carter revisits the 2005 superhero movie Batman Begins.
- Paul Hirons shares the six essentials of a great amateur sleuth TV show
- Olivia Rutigliano shares strange international film posters for classic crime and horror movies.
- Dani
Anguiano reports that actors and filmmaker Tyler Perry has been accused
of sexual harassment and workplace gender violence.
Comments on season 2 of Poker Face:
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Comments on The Phoenician Scheme:
- Haley Zapal calls The Phoenician Scheme a solid, well composed entry in the Wes Anderson canon, though it lacks the emotional depth of some of his older films
- Tanjil Rashid declares that The Phoenician Scheme is fantasy, but also a remarkable engagement with the real-life conflict in the Middle East
- Kimberly Pierce shares her thoughts on The Phoenician Scheme.
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Writing, publishing and promotion:
- Lauren Myracle explains how writing for kids taught her exactly what she needed to know to write for adults, especially when it came to thrillers.
- Gerri Lewis talks about the craft of creating and incorporating background details that enrich a mystery.
- Lee Cole explains what it means to be a working class writer at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop?
- Jason Sanford has expanded his Genre Grapevine column with a column focussed on generative AI.
- Jim Milliot reports that audiobook sales have risen by thirteen percent in 2024.
- Ella Creamer reports that the revenue from audio books in the UK has risen by almost a third in 2024.
- Ed Nawotka reports that three British aerospace executives have formed the science fiction publisher Factorial Books.
- Anthony Aycock explains how a single court case could determine the future of book banning in America
- Dalya Alberge reports that the British Library will symbolically reinstate Oscar Wilde’s reader pass, 130 years after it was cancelled following Wilde's conviction for "gross indecency".
Awards:
Interviews:
- Scott Edelman interviews Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
- Paul Burke interviews Fiona Cummins.
- Ayo Onatade interviews Stuart Neville.
- Authors on the Air interviews Jeff Ayers and Jon Land a.k.a. A.J. Landau.
- Garrick Webster interviews Maryann Webb.
- Garrick Webster interviews Heidi Field.
- Alex Dueben interviews Malka Older.
Reviews:
- Janet Webb reviews Hidden Nature by Nora Roberts
- Doreen Sheridan reviews Blood Moon by Sandra Brown
- Jen Lucas reviews What The Night Brings by Mark Billingham
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews What The Night Brings by Mark Billingham
- Mandie Griffiths reviews What Happens In The Dark by Kia Abdullah
- Lesa Holstine reviews Nightshade by Michael Connelly
- Jeff Ayers reviews Gone Dark by Ryan Steck
- Amy Myers reviews Don't Let Him In by Lisa Jewell
- Jen Lucas reviews We Are All Guilty Here by Karin Slaughter
- Jen Lucas reviews Some Of Us Are Liars by Fiona Cummins
- Joseph B. Hoyos reviews The Memory Collectors by Dete Meserve
- The Quick and the Read reviews Dead to Me by Gytha Lodge
- Sonja van der Westhuizen reviews Summerhouse by Yiğit Karaahmet, translated by Nicholas Glastonbury.
- Mary Picken reviews Double Room by Anne Sénès, translated by Alice Banks
- Vicki Weisfeld reviews Sayulita Sucker by Craig Terlson
- Adam Colclough reviews Gunner by Alan Parks
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews Ritual Of Fire by D.V. Bishop
- Marlene Harris reviews Knave of Diamonds by Laurie R. King
- In Search of the Classic Mystery Novel reviews The Case Of The Singer And The Showgirl by Lisa Hall
- Vicki Kondelik reviews A Fatal Waltz by Kathleen Marple Kalb.
- Doreen Sheridan reviews The Undoing Of Violet Claybourne by Emily Critchley
- Gwen Moffat reviews Let the Bad Times Roll by Alice Slater
- Erin Britton reviews Murder on the Marlow Belle by Robert Thorogood
- Runalong the Shelves reviews Thirteen Ways to Kill Lulabelle Rock by Maud Woolf
- Alex Brown reviews Harmattan Season by Tochi Onyebuchi
- Paul Di Filippo reviews Esperance by Adam Oyebanji
- Marlene Harris reviews Esperance by Adam Oyebanji
- Lesa Holstine reviews Raymond Chandler’s Trouble is My Business by Arvind Ethan David, Ilias Kyriazis and Cris Peter
Classics reviews:
- Zack Budryk revisits the 1938 crime novel Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
- B.V. Lawson revisits the 1938 suspense novel The Singing Spider by Angus MacVicar
- Kate Jackson revisits the 1954 mystery Alibi Innings by Barbara Worsley-Gough
- Happiness is a Book revisits the 1954 Inspector Julian Rivers mystery Impact of Evidence by Carol Carnac
- Kate Jackson revisits the 1965 Miss Marple mystery At Bertram’s Hotel by Agatha Christie
- Martin Edwards revisits the 1974 locked room mystery Black Aura by John Sladek.
- Lesa Holstine revisits the 1996 Mrs. Pargeter mystery Mrs. Pargeter’s Plot by Simon Brett
Con and event reports:
- Mary Picken shares the program for the 2025 Bloody Scotland International Crime Writing Festival in Stirling, Scotland.
- Mary Picken shares the program for the 2025 Capital Crime festival in London, UK.
- Martin Edwards reports about the 2025 Alibis in the Archives crime fiction event at Gladstone's Library in Hawarden, UK.
- Ayo Onatade reports that Lee Child will headline the inaugural Whitby Literature Festival in Whitby, Yorkshire.
Research:
- Erin Bledsoa profiles powerful female gangsters of the twentieth century.
- Peter Walker and Dan Sabbagh report that Blaise Metreweli has been named as the first woman to lead the UK intelligence service MI6
- Jerry C. Drake reports about the never solved 1908 murder of Hazel Drew in upstate New York, which inspired the TV-show Twin Peaks.
- Sonja Anderson reports that archaeologists are recreating the long-lost recipe for Egyptian Blue, the world’s oldest known synthetic pigment
Free online fiction:
Trailers and videos:
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